TV Adverts and How Does Advertising Influence You ?

[mongers]

Just heard on a BBC podcast an advertising expert say we now watch 47 tv adverts a day, compared with 33 in 2002. And that's discounting ads people fast-forward/jump using tivo/pvrs :gasp:

So how many adverts do you watch a day ?

How much advertising material do you 'consume' and to watch extent do you thing it affects you behaviour ?

[Richard Hakluyt]

Well I only watch DVDs and BBC4, so I don't get to see any adverts apart from those anti-piracy ones. I'm not a pirate so maybe they are working 

In print I get the Spectator and The Economist delivered. I can't even remember what the Speccie advertises. In The Economist there are adverts from posh watch companies, large banks, oil companies and IT.......can't say I respond to them, don't even have a watch.

To get my attention a firm would need a good internet presence. So, I might google "strong decent quality sofas", getting your firm top of the results would probably be good news for a sofa retailer.

[Iormlund]

I don't have a TV.

[Ed Anger]

I like the Allstate Mayhem ads. Still haven't switched insurance to Allstate.

Also, the Opulence, I haz it guy.
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[Razgovory]

I rarely ever watch TV.  Most ads I see are on the Internet and I'm not interested in "One weird trick to make you lose weight".  I don't go in for those one trick ponies.

[Eddie Teach]

I don't think I watched much tv at all in 2002. Maybe Friends and Frasier and whatever show came in between.

[CountDeMoney]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTJXB1TXW0M

[CountDeMoney]

Also, the Opulence, I haz it guy.
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I like Mr. Cambodian drug lord, I'm So Little Why They Call Me The Whale.

[Admiral Yi]

Also, the Opulence, I haz it guy.
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I like Mr. Cambodian drug lord, I'm So Little Why They Call Me The Whale.

The Russian has much hotter floozies.

[Ed Anger]

Also, the Opulence, I haz it guy.
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I like Mr. Cambodian drug lord, I'm So Little Why They Call Me The Whale.

The Russian has much hotter floozies.

And a tiny giraffe.

[Admiral Yi]

To answer the question, the one time time in my life I purchased something in response to an ad was when I set up an etrade account.  I really liked the original baby ads.  Except the golf one, which seemed mean and out of character.

[Eddie Teach]

I'll sometimes try those specialty meals fast food places are rolling out all the time.

[garbon]

I've no idea but of course it plays some role in purchasing decisions.

[Ideologue]

Food ads often make me hungry, but it's not that often that I actually buy the specific item advertised, or even from the specific vendor, although I may keep it in mind.  It may have been more effective back when I ate things that actually get advertised.

[Razgovory]

What do you eat now.